Tony Preston has been in yacht painting & refurbishing business for 16 years.
16 years in the business has done nothing to dim the enthusiasm for producing quality craftsmanship.
The precision and an eye for detail that is required in yacht painting & refurbishing is an integral part of the role.
Coupled with honesty and integrity this business has a client-centered approach, which offers a broad range of services that are tailored to meet the client’s needs, and financial status.
The service provided has the support from other marine specialists. This enables the client to have realistic expectation of what can be achieved.
Tony Preston has worked throughout the world in the yacht painting & refurbishing business.
When Tony takes on a project, he manages the whole deal from start to finish, and it is only finished when he is totally happy with the job, he is of the opinion that perfection should be a bi-product of his work. You can check out what some of his previous clients have said about his work here. He is one of the few professional yacht painters that is actually Endorsed by Blakes Paints.
Tony believes that you can only achieve the best results if you use the best materials.
Professional Yacht Services
Two pack polyurethane finishes
Varnishing
Interior finishing
Epoxy system application
Antifouling coatings
Racing yacht bottom finishing
Gel coat & fibreglass repairs
Full valet & refurbishments undertaken
For a competitive quote, Please contact Tony Preston (click here)
This is an extract from the article in the Classic Boat Magazine ....Once all the fittings were in place Lively Lady was ready for repainting. Professional boat painter Tony Preston from Wicormarine at Portchester was given the job, and he achieved an almost glass-like finish which is a credit to everyone who worked on the boat. First he skimmed over the hull with thinned down fairing cement and identified high and low spots using an electric lead lamp in daylight. Working with wet and dry paper he then ensured that each successive paint surface was absolutely smooth before applying the next coat of thinned-down, one-pack enamel with a 3" (75mm) brush. "I'm over the moon with the finish, and Blakes have got the colour matched exactly as it was before," he commented. read more...
"Lively Lady"
One of the many projects Tony has worked on.
Lively Lady was a cruising yacht built for and by S. J. P. Cambridge in India in 1948. Her second owner was greengrocer Alec Rose, who bought her in 1963 to compete the following year in the second solo transatlantic race from England to the United States. Lively Lady placed fourth with a crossing of thirty-six days. Two years later Rose embarked on a solo circumnavigation, his intent—like that of Sir Francis Chichester in Gipsy Moth IV - being to complete the passage with only one stop. Rerigged by Illingworth and Primrose, Lively Lady's primary new feature was the addition of a boomless mizzen mast from which to set a mizzen staysail. After several false starts in the spring, he departed Portsmouth on July 16, 1966. Lively Lady made good time, passing the Cape of Good Hope on October 8 and arriving at Melbourne on December 17. After a month-long layover, he sailed on January 14. On the eleventh day out, a masthead fitting parted and he was forced to put in to the southern New Zealand port of Bluff for repairs that lasted five days. He rounded Cape Horn on April 1, and returned to Portsmouth on July 4, 1968. Like Chichester before him, Rose was knighted for his achievement by Elizabeth II
This is an extract from the article in the Classic Boat Magazine
